Re: OT optimising pictures for web pages

["Chris Bond" <chris@xxxxxxx>]

I'd use something like Macromedia Fireworks MX - it can chop very large
files down to reasonable sizes for browsing on the web.

Kind Regards,
Chris Bond
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mick Furlong" <hiltoneltd@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 12:48 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] OT optimising pictures for web pages


> Folks I know a lot of you do web pages both for yourselves and others
so I
> thought I would ask this here.
>
> I am putting together a website which will have pages with 2/3
smallish
> pictures in the text and I want them to download fast on a modem link.
> These  will then be linked to larger versions of the pictures....easy
so
> far.
>
> Question is how do I work out the optimum size for a trade off between
> download and quality? Is there a formula or method for doing this?
>
> the original pictures were taken on a 4.5megapiel camera and I can get
them
> to a reasonable number of Kbytes by using Irfanview and adjusting the
jpeg
> compression, do I also need to reduce the definition? (the originals
are
> around 1.3MB and 2272x1704x24bpp).
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Mick
>
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